Penelope’s Desk On Criminal Minds Is Covered In Gifts From Kirsten Vangsness’ Fans – Looper

While she’s showing off her tech skills, Penelope Garcia is also bringing loads of laughs to any meeting by weighing in on the state of the internet and by joking around with her co-workers. Her humor and sense of fun truly shine when visiting her desk. During a set tour with TV Guide, Kirsten Vangsness showed off her character’s space, which includes a monster figurine and a lava lamp. Vangsness said that these knick-knacks are all courtesy of the props department. All of them except for some of the fun pens. “Fans send me pens,” she said, showing off one fuzzy pen that has been with her for several seasons.

But fun pens and lava lamps are not the only pieces returning to the Behavioral Analyst Unit. Garcia left her job at the end of Season 15, leaving behind a pink sticky note for the next tech guru. She finds that note upon her return, and Vangsness told CinemaBlend about the unique role that pens have played when it comes to this note. “So when we did the original, I would say 90% of the pens in Garcia’s office back then, and so far now, are run by imagination. So they didn’t write. So I would write something– it would be really meaningful –but it would be different every take. I was like, whatever I want to feel right then,” she said, adding that she did make a definite undisclosed choice when it came to her message.